Mitski: 'Francis Forever' SXSW 2016 | NPR MUSIC FRONT ROW
Музыка
We have the benefit of hindsight when it comes to 1950s and '60s pop music. Songs about motorcycle crashes and broken hearts sound quaint now, but the sweet harmonies and four-on-the-floor beats reflected real anxieties of teens and twentysomethings. Mitski Miyawaki - who records under her first name - makes music that looks to that era, both in style and substance. The 25-year-old Brooklyn songwriter channels the "pop" reflection of everyday trauma. This is realness, often riddled with feedback, but more often sung in quiet and determined desperation.
This is why when she played our SXSW showcase, you could be forgiven in thinking that her songs about loss, heartbreak, aimlessness and identity carry a dark weight. Largely culling from 2014's Bury Me At Makeout Creek, Mitski's set was spare in its instrumentation, but cavernous in emotion. "Townie," the particularly doomy "I Don't Smoke" and the feedback-squealing closer "Drunk Walk Home" derailed into fuzz and wild vocal acrobatics, while "First Love" felt like a bedroom confessional.
But Mitski also performed two songs from the forthcoming Puberty 2, a record that opens up her sonic and lyrical palette. "Once More to See You," getting a first taste here, is like something out of a cloudy dream, with a space between guitar notes that's deliberate, yet disorienting. Mitski lets her voice breathe through the pauses like a lounge singer left alone in a velvet room. When she spoke with NPR about "Your Best American Girl," she said, "I am half Japanese, and it came from wanting to just fit into this very American person's life and simply not being able to." In Austin, it's a scorcher, riddled with sludgy distortion and crashing cymbals as if someone set off fireworks just above the stage. -- LARS GOTRICH
CREDITS
Producers: Saidah Blount, Mito Habe-Evans, Otis Hart; Technical Director: Josh Rogosin; Director: Mito Habe-Evans; Videographers: Nickolai Hammar, Katie Hayes Luke, Cameron Robert, A.J. Wilhelm, Lizzie Chen; Editor: Niki Walker; Audio: Timothy Powell/Metro Mobile; Assistant Audio Engineer: Loretta Rae; Production Assistants: Erin Conlon, Nathan Gaar; Editors: Niki Walker, Kara Frame. Photography: Adam Kissick. Special Thanks: SXSW, Stubb's BBQ; Executive Producer: Anya Grundmann.
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I know for a fact there’s at least 5 teenage girls crying in that crowd
@cg6176
3 жыл бұрын
Why teenage?
@ok-xl2oh
3 жыл бұрын
@@cg6176 fr
@coasterguy1000
3 жыл бұрын
@@cg6176 She's alluding its herself plus 4 others she was with
@una9906
2 жыл бұрын
it’s me i’m 5 teenage girls
@tas5278
2 жыл бұрын
And I’d be one of them if I was there
I love how she leaves the tuner on her bass, I love how she plays the bass, I love this song, I love Mitski, pls come back Mitski, but also you deserve a break for filling up all my playlists.
@da-cs7ht
3 жыл бұрын
same aaah
@sunbeams.
2 жыл бұрын
mitski just reactivated her instagram and twitter accounts . she might be coming back
@bigburge
2 жыл бұрын
this aged so well 💕
I am obsessed with this song...
@romeo17heartfillia92
8 жыл бұрын
same
@moipetitnoel7839
4 жыл бұрын
Definitely me tooooo
@yenleaks
4 жыл бұрын
Still i am to thid day
@0liver-388
4 жыл бұрын
Forever
@v.bright7123
3 жыл бұрын
Heard it last night and still on replay.finding covers and other sets on youtube
mistki invented music no i dont take criticism
Everyone's here talking about Adventure Time but I'm here cuz I heard the song at a goth club funnily enough and really loved it.
@Paris-gy5eg
7 жыл бұрын
Abby Beatson Good for you...
@whiffy209
4 жыл бұрын
“Funnily”?
@LampAttackify
3 жыл бұрын
What’s a goth club? Like at your middle school?
Ok, I just spent evening confirming that every version of this song makes me cry.
Adventure Time actually brought me here. They played a cover in their new episode. I really like this one too!
@estib2
8 жыл бұрын
me too! I think the same
@drustvoizparka2354
8 жыл бұрын
Me too.😂
@paolarubi8016
8 жыл бұрын
me too *0*
@lonewolfow
7 жыл бұрын
If only Adventure Time would release a full cover of this song, that'd be awesome
@katt5305
7 жыл бұрын
yeaa me to
I bought this song to support a great artist. :) Been listening to it non stop. :D
i love you mitski
ahhh guitar player killing it!
i’m so glad at is bringing people to the talented queen that is mitski
I'm glad Adventure Time brought me here. Now I've found someone cool to listen to!
SLAY
almost 20 years ago when i first heard hugo largo, pixies, throwing muses...
I miss her
Lyrics:I don't know what to do without you I don't know where to put my hands I've been trying to lay my head down But I'm writing this at three AM I don't need the world to see That I've been the best I can be, but I don't think I could stand to be Where you don't see me On sunny days I go out walking I end up on a tree-lined street I look up at the gaps of sunlight I miss you more than anything I don't need the world to see That I've been the best I can be, but I don't think I could stand to be Where you don't see me And autumn comes when you're not yet done With the summer passing by, but I don't think I could stand to be Where you don't see me
Mitski is truly is an icon of our times
No, Adventure Time didn't bring me here -- this brought me to Adventure Time since all yall are talking about it
Marcy brought me here
i love her sm
her lyrics birthed me
queen
sobbing rn
미츠키는 사랑입니다
mitski i love you
WOWWW LIKEE
Woah heck, is that PAZ Lechantin??? This is going straight to my Favorites!
Marceline!
와 진짜 좋다....
marcy 💜
marcy
Even more amazing at 1.25x speed.
@LupusWarrior55
8 жыл бұрын
yo thanks for the tip! I agree!
@vodaaaaaa
7 жыл бұрын
I have no idea why its so fucking popular to butcher great songs by changing the speed but I really REALLY hate it.
Foda pakas acho que todo mundo veio por causa de hora de aventura
marcy 💛
reminds me of angel olsen
Walter was here!
Marcy 💜
Who is Francis?
@ruipengchang3907
4 жыл бұрын
Where's Francis?
@v.bright7123
3 жыл бұрын
Dunno. Sending this the Francis I know.
@f0xyvixen
3 жыл бұрын
How's Francis?
@rinmedina9292
3 жыл бұрын
What's a Francis?
@Theoquertz
3 жыл бұрын
Why's a Francis?
bill hader snl
no se ustedes pero me gusta mas como la canto olivia olson voz de marceline
She is a better songwriter than a performer. At least, here she does not sound very impressive. I would love to hear the full version of this song by Olivia Olson (Aka Marceline)
@sumasian3911
7 жыл бұрын
its only a fair comparison if you make it between her official studio recording of this song and the olivia olson one (- -") even as an avid fan i felt this live show was lacking and thats because she was really fatigued here and it was after doing a long line-up.
@OrangeAni
7 жыл бұрын
Fair enough :)
Marceline's is cooler
@TAB00
3 жыл бұрын
no 🥰
@ahno514
3 жыл бұрын
@@TAB00 did I ask your opinion? I don't care what you think, there is no right anwser about this
@mitskimaxxing
2 жыл бұрын
5 years later and you're still wrong
the official version sounds way too auto tuned and fake compared to this
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